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Back from Your Party conference now. Some thoughts...
It was very messy indeed.
And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.
The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)
It was very messy indeed.
And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.
The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Back from Your Party conference now. Some thoughts...
It was very messy indeed.
And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.
The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)
It was very messy indeed.
And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.
The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)
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Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
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Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
Don’t Panic: Britain is not broken – adamcorlett.com
adamcorlett.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
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LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Sterling was heading for its best weekly performance in over three months on Friday, in a sign of relief among investors after British finance minister Rachel Reeves revealed her long-awaited budget earlier this week.
Better with Labour 👍
Better with Labour 👍
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Sterling was heading for its best weekly performance in over three months on Friday, in a sign of relief among investors after British finance minister Rachel Reeves revealed her long-awaited budget earlier this week.
Better with Labour 👍
Better with Labour 👍
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Farage filmed circa 2,000 fan videos over past 12 months making £140K - but spoke in HOP only 22 times for which we (taxpayers) pay the Grifting parasite £94K plus considerable expenses..
Just think… how much time did it take him to film 2000 videos, versus his job as an MP❗️😡
Just think… how much time did it take him to film 2000 videos, versus his job as an MP❗️😡
'Shameless' Farage pockets £140k from fan videos as constituents 'furious'
A Mirror probe shows the Reform MP has made £140,000 from the Cameo messaging platform - but spoken in Parliament 22 times and mentioning his Clacton constituents on just three occassions
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Farage filmed circa 2,000 fan videos over past 12 months making £140K - but spoke in HOP only 22 times for which we (taxpayers) pay the Grifting parasite £94K plus considerable expenses..
Just think… how much time did it take him to film 2000 videos, versus his job as an MP❗️😡
Just think… how much time did it take him to film 2000 videos, versus his job as an MP❗️😡
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There’s a turn up for the books. As they used to say in the old days.
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There’s a turn up for the books. As they used to say in the old days.
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2018: “Other passengers at the airport said that the then foreign secretary looked like “he had slept in his clothes”, struggling to walk in a straight line and telling other passengers he had had a heavy night.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson admits to private meeting with ex-KGB agent
Meeting with Alexander Lebedev in 2018 when Johnson was foreign secretary occurred during ‘weekend-long party’ in Italy
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
2018: “Other passengers at the airport said that the then foreign secretary looked like “he had slept in his clothes”, struggling to walk in a straight line and telling other passengers he had had a heavy night.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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GOP Rep SLAMS his own party "crooked as a dog's leg"
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
GOP Rep SLAMS his own party "crooked as a dog's leg"
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Words still have consequences, even for this Oval Office occupant.
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Words still have consequences, even for this Oval Office occupant.
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Laura Kuenssberg's argument that Rachel Reeves misled voters by suggesting she was short of cash, as a smokescreen to increase welfare doesn't even make sense. A Chancellor of the Exchequer can choose what spending they cut or increase. It is not illegal for them to decide to increase it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Laura Kuenssberg's argument that Rachel Reeves misled voters by suggesting she was short of cash, as a smokescreen to increase welfare doesn't even make sense. A Chancellor of the Exchequer can choose what spending they cut or increase. It is not illegal for them to decide to increase it.
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“Mr. President, if your handling of the economy is so great, why aren’t these numbers being released & celebrated?”
If we had a press corps with integrity & grit, they’d ALL be asking him this question nonstop until he answered.
If we had a press corps with integrity & grit, they’d ALL be asking him this question nonstop until he answered.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Mr. President, if your handling of the economy is so great, why aren’t these numbers being released & celebrated?”
If we had a press corps with integrity & grit, they’d ALL be asking him this question nonstop until he answered.
If we had a press corps with integrity & grit, they’d ALL be asking him this question nonstop until he answered.
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13 bits of good news delivered by Labour in the last week. Some via the Budget. Some worth a reminder from a bit further back marked out in Budget by funding.
Great to have a Labour gov
Great to have a Labour gov
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
13 bits of good news delivered by Labour in the last week. Some via the Budget. Some worth a reminder from a bit further back marked out in Budget by funding.
Great to have a Labour gov
Great to have a Labour gov
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Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press
www.newstatesman.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
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An excellent debunking of false Reform claims for Durham County Council.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
📉 Reform’s “Millions Saved” Rhetoric vs. The £11.1 Million Reality: A Full Breakdown of What They’ve Actually Done in Durham
For months, Reform UK councillors, especially Darren Grimes and Andrew Husband have shouted from every available platform that they’ve “saved millions,” “cut waste,” and “fixed the finances” in Durham...
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
An excellent debunking of false Reform claims for Durham County Council.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves obliterated Badenoch with icy-polite smile that hurts far worse than shouting. A courteous yet unmistakably decisive rebuke. #ukpolitics
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Chancellor Rachel Reeves obliterated Badenoch with icy-polite smile that hurts far worse than shouting. A courteous yet unmistakably decisive rebuke. #ukpolitics
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This is a long one. But well
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is a long one. But well
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
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Stunned.
What WERE the chances?
What WERE the chances?
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Stunned.
What WERE the chances?
What WERE the chances?
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But he is Reform, so that doesn’t count. It’s only when Labour dare to speak that they are called liars by the media and harassed.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
But he is Reform, so that doesn’t count. It’s only when Labour dare to speak that they are called liars by the media and harassed.
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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And people wonder why Labour is lagging in the polls. Farage lies every time he opens his month. And he still has not apologised to the victims of the grooming gang scandal for lying and besmirching their names. Where is the scrutiny of Reform?
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And people wonder why Labour is lagging in the polls. Farage lies every time he opens his month. And he still has not apologised to the victims of the grooming gang scandal for lying and besmirching their names. Where is the scrutiny of Reform?
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They are also planning to spend over £700m a year supporting British farmers & agriculture suppliers.
Overall they are facilitating more than £1 billion of spending into the UK economy over the next year.
Will other supermartets follow suit?
Will this make you support the Co-op more?
3/3
Overall they are facilitating more than £1 billion of spending into the UK economy over the next year.
Will other supermartets follow suit?
Will this make you support the Co-op more?
3/3
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
They are also planning to spend over £700m a year supporting British farmers & agriculture suppliers.
Overall they are facilitating more than £1 billion of spending into the UK economy over the next year.
Will other supermartets follow suit?
Will this make you support the Co-op more?
3/3
Overall they are facilitating more than £1 billion of spending into the UK economy over the next year.
Will other supermartets follow suit?
Will this make you support the Co-op more?
3/3
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They say the government's reduction in business rates is "a welcome & important step that will help protect jobs, strengthen local economies & support high streets".
As a result, they are cutting the prices of 1000 products to help people with the cost of living & invest in 100 stores.
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As a result, they are cutting the prices of 1000 products to help people with the cost of living & invest in 100 stores.
2/3
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
They say the government's reduction in business rates is "a welcome & important step that will help protect jobs, strengthen local economies & support high streets".
As a result, they are cutting the prices of 1000 products to help people with the cost of living & invest in 100 stores.
2/3
As a result, they are cutting the prices of 1000 products to help people with the cost of living & invest in 100 stores.
2/3